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title: The king knew the advice to be excellent and dismissing the young Br… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The king knew the advice to be excellent and dismissing the young Brahman, he had the words embroidered on all his clothes and engraved on all his plates, cups and dishes. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller., with its dependency tree an
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 102

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The king knew the advice to be excellent and dismissing the young Brahman, he had the words embroidered on all his clothes and engraved on all his plates, cups and dishes.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** know, be, dismiss, have, embroider, engrave · **To what, where:** advice, young Brahman, words, clothes, plates

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:17:102
# text = The king knew the advice to be excellent and dismissing the young Brahman, he had the words embroidered on all his clothes and engraved on all his plates, cups and dishes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dismissing	dismiss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	engraved	engrave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the king | the advice |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer advice=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | the advice *not said here* |  |  |  | excellent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dismiss** | gerund | the king *not said here* | the young Brahman |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brahman=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | king | the words |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 5 | **embroider** | participle |  | the words *not said here* |  | king's clothes |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination |
| 6 | **engrave** | participle |  |  |  | king's plates and cups and dishes |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on plate=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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